Illegal parkers, you are on notice: City government is coming for you.

That Memphis myth that your parking ticket will be forgiven and forgotten after a year? No more. If you did the crime, the city has plans to make you pay.

Memphis has given new teeth to its effort to collect on parking tickets, with a new structure and even a new ticket. It’s all backed by a set of new fines and fees for those who don’t pay their tickets by certain dates.

Council member Bill Boyd helped push the new collection project, one he said was stymied because council members thought state law prevented it. Instead, he and Mayor A C Wharton’s administration worked with the city courts to change the process and Boyd says it’s high time the city goes after these “boogers.”

“We are all running around here grasping for dollars and this, to me, was a no-brainer,” Boyd said of a city budget season troubled with fewer dollars to work with. “This goes out to the people who break the law. Let them pay their fair share of what they are supposed to be paying according to the law.”

Boyd said the project could yield “millions of dollars” in the future but was told to expect about $500,000 in new revenues in the coming year.

The tickets cover parking violations for an expired meter, parking in a restricted or no parking zone or loading zone, blocking a fire lane or fire plug, or parking in a handicap space.

It also covers splitting meters, or parking between two other parked cars that have made enough room between their two meters. But it also covers other non-moving violations like blocking traffic or being stopped on the left side of the curb (or facing oncoming traffic).

Failing to pay a ticket within 15 days of receiving it will now bring a $50 fine, $135 in court costs and a $1 state tax payment. If the ticket hasn’t been paid within 60 days, another $20 late fee is tacked on. If the ticket hasn’t been paid in 90 days, another $90 fee is added and the car attached to the ticket can be impounded or immobilized with a boot.

The new tickets are on hold for now but Boyd expects them to be issued at least by August. However, the Memphis law firm of Handel R. Durham Jr. has already begun to collect unpaid tickets, according to George Little, the city’s chief administrative officer. Durham’s office gets 10 percent of all parking ticket revenues collected, Little said.

Offenders will get the traditional “pink card” notifying them of the ticket. They’ll also get a letter and a phone call from Durham’s office reminding them to pay the ticket.

Little said the effort is one of many around City Hall to bring in all the money owed to the city each year. Part of the mayor’s five-year strategic plan is to set up a revenue division to make sure the city gets its due from every tax, fine or fee it has levied.

“In this time of tight revenues, we need to be very efficient in what is available to us,” Little said. “We can’t leave money on the table.”